Frost Byte, vol. 5, Special Edition

News
Over the last few months, the library has received numerous donations from Roger. Included in these donations are a number of journal titles, listed below.

We want to thank Roger for his donations and his continued support of the library and the analog archives.

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Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 17, iss. 1 and 3; vol. 18, iss. 1, 3, and 5; vol 19 - , continuing.

Annals of Glaciology, vol. 3, 5, 9, 12, 17, 25, 31

Arctic, vol. 6(3), 8(3), 9(4), 10 - , continuing

Arctic and Alpine Research, vol. 1-12, 17(4)

Arctic Research of the United States, vol. 1-17

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 50 - , continuing

Climate Monitor, vol. 10-20

Erdkunde, vol. 1-50; 46/1-56/1

Frozen Ground, vol. 6, 9, 12, 14, 16-30

Geographical Bulletin, vol. 2 – vol. 9, iss. 4

Ice, vol. 53, 56/57, 59-143

International Journal of Climatology, vol. 1 - , continuing

Journal of Applied Meteorology, vol. 8-19

Journal of Climate, vol. 1 - , continuing

Journal of Climate and Applied Meteorology, vol. 22, iss. 2 – vol. 26, iss. 12

Journal of Glaciology, vol. 14(70), 20(82-84), 21(85), 22(86-88), 23(89), 24(90), 25(91-93), 26(94), 27(95-97), 28(98-103).

Monthly Weather Review, vol. 105, iss. 12, vol. 108 - , continuing

Mountain Research and Development, vol. 1(1-2), 2-20, 25(2-4), 27(3) - , continuing

Physical Geography, vol. 18(4), 18(5), 21(4), 21(5), 22(4)

Polar Geography and Geology, vol. 17(1), 18(1), 23(1-2), 24-30.

Polar Meteorology and Glaciology, vol. 4, 5, 9, 10, 12, 16

Progress in Physical Geography, vol. 1(1)-17(3), 19(4), 20(1), 30(3)

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 1950 (Centennary
Proceedings of the Royal Meteorological Society), 1953 (Proceedings
Toronto Meteorological Conference), 81(347) - , continuing

Quaternary Research, vol. 1(1)-40(3)

Reviews in Geophysics, vol. 27 - , continuing

Weather, vol. 8(11), 10(1) - , continuing

Frost Byte, vol. 5, iss. 27

News
We have added all of the CD-ROMs and videos to the catalog. We now have only one major format to add, microforms, which we hope to add later this year.

About 700 new glacier photographs taken by Austin Post have been added to the Glacier Photograph Collection. Our students are hard at work QCing and adding the metadata to these images. Unfortunately, we do not have access to the original negatives or prints and are limited to creating digital images from microfilmed copies. The quality of the microfilm varies and so does the resulting digitized image. Due to the enormous amount of images and the format we have to deal with, we’ve decided not to weed heavily on image quality. We will announce the updates some time in the near future (after some of the metadata is cleaned up in the database). In addition to the images, we will also be reviewing the best way to add the more detailed metadata from the Glacier Photo Index project.

Staff Report
Gloria attended the American Libraries Association conference June 27-June 30. The ALA is the largest and oldest library association in the world. It’s membership includes librarians in public, special (law, medical, etc.), school, academic, research, etc. libraries. As a result, the conference programs offer a wide variety of sessions and vendors.

She attended sessions covering topics such as librarians helping people in Second Life (a virtual world) to the new changes to Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) processes and cataloging the Library of Congress way. If you want to see just what information specialists and librarians exchange during the annual conference, here is a link to the ALA Conference wiki, http://wikis.ala.org/annual2008/index.php/Annual_2008. You can also find handouts, slides, and other materials from conference sessions here, http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Reminder
To search for CDs or videos, just use the drop down menu in the format field.

New Items in the Library
Journals & Reports
Antarctic Science, vol. 20, iss. 3
Polar Record, vol. 44, iss. 3, no. 230
Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 61, iss. 2
Report of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, #72
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 26
Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 46, iss. 1
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,vol. 89, iss. 2
Monthly Weather Review, vol. 135, iss. 12
Glaciological Investigations in Norway 2007, #3 2008
Earth Observer, vol. 20, iss. 3
International Journal of Climatology, vol. 28, iss. 7
Journal of Climate, vol. 21, iss. 11
Environmental Studies Research Funds Annual Report 2007

Frost Byte, Issue 5, Volume 26

News

As Gloria, Allaina and Shelly Sommer (INSTAAR librarian) prepare for the 2012 Polar Libraries Colloquy, we will be open to any suggestions, lessons learned, words of encouragement, etc. Feel free to ask any questions or offer any words of wisdom as we begin the planning process. Drop us an email at library@nsidc.org.

Staff Report

Allaina attended Collaboration in the Digital Age, a forum in the Connecting to Collections initiative sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in cooperation with Heritage Preservation. This free conference included people from 43 states, Puerto Rico and China. Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Bruce Cole, Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities, Adair Margo, Chairman, President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Anne-Imelda Radice, Director, IMLS, Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Shirley Amore, City Librarian, Denver Public Library, and Lawrence Reger, President, Heritage Preservation provided opening and keynote remarks for the attendees. Many others provided the content for the sessions. The forum was held at the Denver Public Library, Denver Art Museum and the Colorado History Museum.

IMLS began Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action as a national initiative to raise public awareness of the importance of caring for collections held across the U.S. Collaboration in the Digital Age is the second of four forums and focuses on the needs of museums and libraries by helping them think strategically and collaboratively about digitization and digital preservation. Sessions focused on the fundamentals of digital content creation and preservation, emphasizing practical approaches to planning digital projects, increasing access to collections, enabling digital resources to serve multiple purposes, and protecting digital investments.

This past weekend was the second intensive weekend of teaching for Allaina and her colleague Shaun Boyd. The Introduction to Archives class visited the American Alpine Club library and archives and also received a tour of the Bradford Washburn American Mountaineering Museum. The AAC library has received a collection of large framed Washburn photographs. One (the “colossal” size) is currently on display in the library along with a few other artifacts donated by Washburn to the museum and library. Gary Landeck, AAC library and archives director, is pictured here in front of the Washburn display.

Allaina, Gary and Shaun pose in front of the Washburn display in the AAC library.

Carl Stewart, Emergency Response coordinator for Norlin libraries, spoke to the class about disaster planning for collections. He coordinated a hand’s on experience for the students by placing a “collection” in a wading pool and pouring water over the collection. He successfully simulated a pipe breaking in the library or archives and the surprise and shock of walking in on such a problem.

Over the course of 2 hours the students were able to experience how quickly paper materials absorb water, emphasizing the need to quickly take action. Here are a few photos of the experiment. It was a slightly traumatic event for Allaina and Shaun who have both personally experienced recent water disasters – Allaina during Hurricane Katrina and Shaun as recently as the current flooding in Iowa. However, it was well worth the effort. We could speak about the smell and the feel of what happens when things get wet and also emphasize the need for acting quickly to recover items.

Reminder

Kristin Gibbons is employed for the summer and will be spending much of her time on the computer in the library. If the library computer is occupied and you need to look up an item, please stop in to ask one of the librarians for assistance. The catalog is also accessible via Igloo. User ID is catalog and there is no password.

Don’t forget that you can ask us a question using Yahoo IM, Windows Live Messenger, or AIM. Just add nsidclibrary to your buddies list.

New Items in the Library

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, vol. 19, iss. 2

Meri, #60 and #61

Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, iss. 8

Arctic, vol. 61, iss. 2

Mountain Research & Development, vol. 28, iss. 2

EOS, vol. 89, iss. 25

Polar Science, vol. 2, iss. 1

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, vol. 40, iss. 2

Frost Byte, Issue 5, Volume 25

News

On the 12^th, Allaina attended a Society of American Archivists workshop in Denver. “Project Management for Archivists” provided tools geared toward archivists who generally have several projects going on at once. Although the workshop did not provide time management tools to assist with multiple projects, the ability to manage projects individually and to determine the difference between projects, programs and processes was highlighted.

Last week Allaina attended the Special Libraries Association’s annual conference in Seattle, WA. Among the sessions she attended was a very informative session – “Surviving Your Digitization Project”. This session built on the SAA workshop from the previous week even though they were not directly related. The session was presented by librarians from the Combined Arms Research Library (Ft. Leavenworth, KS) who discussed their successes in creating a digital library of their not easily accessible materials. Another, “Building Global Bridges across Science Databases”, was a panel session presented by Walter Warnick, Director of DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Ellen Herbst, Director of the National Technical Information Service, and a third speaker who was filling in for Gladys Cotter (Associate Biology Director for Biological Information, Biological Resources Division, USGS). This session discussed many of the reasons why federated searching of science databases benefits the world. These are mainly concepts already being discussed and presented by some folks at NSIDC so it was nice to see others finally discussing it as well. Some databases that were mentioned were:

Science.gov

Science Accelerator

World Wide Science

National Biological Information Infrastructure

Staff Report

This week’s schedule:

Allaina is out the 24^th and 25^th to attend Collaboration in the Digital Age a forum in the Connecting to Collections initiative sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in cooperation with Heritage Preservation.

Gloria is out the 27^th and 30^th to attend the American Library Association’s annual conference.

Reminder

When you browse the library shelves (even the New Acquisitions), please place the item flat on an empty shelf (or empty space on a shelf) or in the wire baskets by the library door. We track the ‘in-library’ usage for all items.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports

Ice, #145 (2007)

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 134, iss. 632

Image, #28

EOS, vol. 89, iss. 24

Frost Byte, v. 5, iss. 24

News
We do hope that everyone had a wonderful Father’s Day and enjoyed the sunny (if a tad too warm) weekend.

Gloria and Kristin have started adding all of the CD-ROMs to the catalog, as well as our VHS tapes. After that, we might tackle the microforms, but that is definitely in the future and a long term project.

Gloria has added some new links to the Library’s e-journals page, including the new open source journal, Himalayan Journal of Sciences. Please check it out.

Staff Report
This week, Allaina is out the 16th – the 18th, and Gloria is out the 19th and 20th.

Reminder
When you finish looking at a journal or a book, please place it flat on an empty shelf or put it in the return basket by the door.

New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 22, 23
Norsk Polarinstitutt. Arsmelding 2007
Ice Reports/Ice Charts Winter 2007/2008 (BSH) [CD]
Polar & Glaciological Abstracts, vol. 19, part 1
Physics Today, vol. 61, iss. 6
Environmental Studies Research Funds, #153: Traditional knowledge guide for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories, volumes I & II.
Eastern Snow Conference, #64, Proceedings

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
The Swiss Glaciers 2001/02 and 2002/03. Edited by Evelyne R. Herren and Andreas Bauder.

Expeditions of the First International Polar Year 1882-83, 2nd ed. by William Barr.

Lawinenunfälle in den Schweizer Alpen Winter 2001/02 : Personen und Sachschäden by Stephan Harvey.

Lawinenunfälle in den Schweizer Alpen Winter 2005/06 : Personen und Sachschäden by Benjamin Zweifel.

Frost Byte, vol. 5, iss. 23

News
Gloria has returned from the Great White North, i.e. Edmonton, Alberta, but it was actually quite green and beautiful. The weather was ideal, and she enjoyed all of the walking!

She attended the 22nd biennial Polar Libraries Colloquy (her first PLC!), and she hopes to attend the next one in Germany in 2010. The speakers and papers and presentations ranged from a documentary on the sea mammal diet of the inhabitants of the Chukchi people in Siberia (yes, she had to close her eyes a few times, especially when they were eating fermented whale fat and again when they killed one of the walruses) to the silent auction for items unique to polar libraries and their parent organizations. To get a day-by-day write-up of the conference, check out the PLC blog, http://www.plcblog.blogspot.com/.

PLC was held in conjunction with the University of the Arctic’s conference, adding still another level of information sharing.

She regrets to say that she was out-bid on a couple of great books (for the NSIDC library of course).

For a little background on the PLC, the colloquies alternate between Europe and North America. The last time that Boulder hosted the event was 1988, so Allaina, Gloria, and Shelly (from INSTAAR) volunteered to host the 2012 PLC. The steering committee was very happy to accept our offer. So, for the next four years, we will be working on making it the best PLC ever.

This weekend Allaina was co-instructor for a graduate archives course for the School of Library and Information Management (Emporia State University). The Introduction to Archives course is an overview of the profession and involves lots of tours and guest speakers. This weekend the class toured the Carnegie Branch of the Boulder Public Library and also NSIDC.

Staff Report
This week, Allaina is out the 12th and next week, the 16th – the 18th.

Reminder
All items checked out in June are due Sep. 30, 2008.

New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 21
Boreal Environment Research, vol. 13, iss. 2
Frozen Ground, #31 Dec. 2007
Meridian, Spring/Summer 2008

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
Advances in Land Remote Sensing. Shunlin Liang, editor.

Building polar networks, a strategy for the future edited by Silvia Sarti and Michela Cecconi.

Frost Byte, Issue 5, Volume 22

News

NSIDC participates in the International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD), a collaborative project that aims to will attempt to “identify and describe all publications that result from, or that are about” the current IPY. IPYPD is also part of IPYDIS. As materials are cataloged, you may search for them online through the Arctic and Antarctic Regions (AAR) database. For more information see the about page at IPYPD.

Staff Report

Gloria is out of the office attending the 22nd Polar Libraries Colloquy in Edmonton. She will be out all week, checking email as time allows, and will return to the office on the 9^th. If you have any questions, please see Allaina.

Allaina will be out part of the day Tuesday (3^rd) to take her mother to the airport.

Reminder

June is a busy library conference month this year so you may only see one of the librarians in the office at a time. We are each other’s back up so don’t hesitate to ask either of us for assistance. At least one of us will be away from the office on these dates: June 2-6, 12, 16-20, 24-30.

New Items in the Library

A collection of NSIDC IPY posters will be preserved in the Analog Archives for future reference. Copies of each poster will be housed in flat files so that, 50 years from now, as researchers and staff look back on the events of the 4^th IPY they can view or distribute the posters without the concerns of future digital conversion and access.